Correspondence and circulars, 1956-1961

Component identifier:

File 9

Content Summary:

. In numerical order assigned by Aitkin, includes: notes on Party organisation prior to and during a campaign; hints to booth workers and scrutineers; miscellaneous election information, including 1961 campaign budget notes re Country-Liberal Party agreement, 1949; Gunnedah Branch minutes, 3 Nov. 1950; notes on bank order system of member contributions; Fadden itinerary, 1951; Gunnedah Office Management Committee papers; Aitkin's notes on Lyne elections, 1945-1951; motion by McEwen to work with anti-socialist forces to defeat Chifley Government.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In February 1986 the National Library of Australia received, as a donation, papers used by Don Aitkin in his research on the Country Party of New South Wales. The material had been made available to Aitkin whilst a doctoral student and post-doctoral fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, during the 1960s, providing some of the background to his PhD thesis and its published revision The Country Party in New South Wales : a study of organisation and survival.

Names:

Aitkin, Don, 1937-

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